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  • Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Paired by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Landon Davies had worked hard to start his own restaurant. It was a very different path than most of his family had taken. He was one of the few family members that were not military or law enforcement. But his hard work had given him a restaurant that was beginning to take off when a woman’s scream in the alley outside his kitchen changed everything...
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    suspense  m-f  contemporary  sports  humor  audiobook
  • A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    A Christmas Wedding at the Castle by Eliza J. Scott

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Do you believe in fate? Livvie Weatherill does…This time last year, if anyone had told Livvie Weatherill she’d have fallen in love and would be making plans for her Christmas wedding to Zander Gillespie, she would have laughed in their face...
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  • Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Freed by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Jackson Parker has seen evil first hand as a Tier 1 government asset with the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. After months of black ops work overseas, he’s finally coming home for a break. But with Keeneston’s wedding of the century, a stowaway on the run, and a plot that could kill thousands of civilians, Jackson gets anything but rest and relaxation...
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    suspense  m-f  humor  contemporary  audiobook
  • Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Secrets Collide by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The mysterious Cy Davies is coming home. He’s not coming alone either. Having rescued Gemma Perry, a sassy investigative reporter for a gossip magazine, he takes her to the one place he knows he can keep her safe. Keeneston. Gemma Perry was having a bad week. Now she was in a small town where gossip was a currency...
  • Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Covert by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kale Mueez just wants to work on his computer programs and, okay, some not-so-legal hacking. Even though he sold one of his computer software companies for more money than he’d ever need, he wasn’t one to sit back and do nothing. That is especially true since his father is a super soldier known around the world...
  • Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Connected by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Years ago, on the darkest night of Poppy and Zinnia’s lives, they got a letter. It was from three elderly sisters in the small town of Keeneston, inviting them to visit and if interested, take a job. The Rose Sisters had wanted to retire, but they’d wanted family to take over their small café...
  • Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Plum Boxed Set 2 by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The adventures continue for Stephanie Plum, Trenton's best-known bounty hunter, in these three Complete Plum Novels from #1 Bestselling Author Janet Evanovich!Four to Score: Stephanie Plum is forced to enlist the help of Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker and wannabe bounty hunter Lula, and transvestite rock musician Sally Sweet in an attempt to capture revenge-seeking waitress Maxine Nowicki...
  • Endless Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Endless Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Ryker Faulkner has built his empire by being ruthless. No one knows the full extent Ryker has gone to in order to build himself up from nothing to one of the most powerful men in the country. So when someone comes after him, everyone knows the last thing Ryker will do is sit back and watch it burn.Kenzie Carys was used to being in the shadows. She was a nurse on night shift...
  • Forever Thrown by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Thrown by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Everything Porter Davies has worked for is about to be ripped away from him with one throw from a rodeo horse. The hits don’t stop there, either. He’d known they’d come for him one day. His father had been the best spy back in his day and they’d been keeping tabs on Porter since he was eighteen...
  • Forever Burning by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Burning by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Colton Davies is living the ultimate bachelor life in Keeneston as the chief fireman. He should be enjoying every moment of it, but a strange feeling in his chest suddenly takes over whenever he sees his friend Cady dancing with other men. The urge to rush in and rescue her is almost overwhelming, but he can’t let himself get carried away...
  • Forever Saved by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Saved by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Jace Davies has devoted his life to helping others. He is opening a new medical practice in his small hometown of Keeneston and is looking forward to starting the next phase of his life. Who knew that the new phase would begin with a 9-1-1 call? Stella Winters left her ex-boyfriend behind for a move to Keeneston to accomplish her dream of opening a garden center...
  • Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Targeted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Hunter Townsend loves his new home in the small town of Shadows Landing. It’s his sanctuary when he comes home from a mission as part of his Special Forces team. Maggie, the infuriating, monogram loving, bright color wearing, cuter than she should be woman, who loves to tease him was the only issue in Shadows Landing. Until a mission goes wrong . .
  • Fierce Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Fierce Shadows by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Dare Reigns is Charleston’s newest undercover ATF agent. Dare and his bosses believe a nearby resort is responsible for several deaths from tainted alcohol. As a favor to his friend, Marcy Davies, Dare agrees to a blind date with her grand-niece who lives in the area. What he didn’t tell her was having a date night at the resort would be the perfect cover for him to begin his investigation...
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    suspense  m-f  humor  contemporary  audiobook
  • Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rising Storm by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Katelyn Jacks was used to being front and center as a model. But she never had to confront the Keeneston Grapevine! After retiring from the runway and returning to town to open a new animal clinic, Katelyn found that her life in the public eye was anything but over...
  • Strictly Family by Ruth Cardello

    Strictly Family by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A successful businessman’s life is turned upside down when a beautiful woman shows up with DNA proof that her daughter is his. The problem? He’s never met her.Thane:I didn’t believe I had a twin until I met Ashlee and saw myself in the eyes of her daughter. I was adopted. I understand why someone might seek out their biological parents, but I’m not her daughter’s father...
  • Dirty Minds by Liliana Hart

    Dirty Minds by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Coroner J.J. Graves and Sheriff Jack Lawson are in a race against time as they hunt down a sniper who is taking the law into his own hands. No one is safe, and everyone is a target...
  • Forever Devoted by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Devoted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Layne Davies needed a break—a break from the busy bodies in her small town of Keeneston, Kentucky and a break from dating men who turned into scared little boys upon meeting her father. That’s why she was so excited to have been invited to speak at a medical conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Never did she think her whole life would change the second she stepped on that stage...
  • Forever Secret by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Secret by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Sophie Davies has a secret . . . in fact, she has quite a few secrets. Sophie Davies is the head of weapon development for a private firm contracted with the Department of Defense. Because of her knowledge and high security clearances, she has kept her job a secret for fear of kidnapping and sabotage...
  • Boomer's Rise by K.L. Savage

    Boomer's Rise by K.L. Savage

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    It’s time to rise from the ashes and extinguish the flames.This is a new start.A clean slate for not just me or Scarlett, but for everyone else that’s trusted me to make their life better.Deciding to keep the Atlantic City chapter name was the right move.Not only is the weight of the members on my shoulders, but the immense responsibility of proving ourselves to the city...
  • BOURBON GIRL: part 1 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    BOURBON GIRL: part 1 of 6 by Stephanie Bond

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An Amazon exclusive!In the romantic mystery BOURBON GIRL, a young woman takes a job as a tour guide on the trail of bourbon distilleries in Kentucky to search for her biological father, and finds so much more along the way...
  • Charlie Foxtrot by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Charlie Foxtrot by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mummies.Yeah, you heard me right. That’s my next job—protecting a mummy.It wouldn’t be a problem, except someone doesn’t want this particular mummy to make it to the museum.Not to mention one of my teammates thinks this particular mummy is cursed.On top of this ridiculous job, I’ve also met the most gorgeous woman in the world...
  • The Trap by Maggie Cole

    The Trap by Maggie Cole

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A sexy lawyer who reduces men to putty in her hands. A former real estate mogul framed for embezzlement. When Claire Whitfield meets the dazzling Ethan Knight, she’s not prepared for the sizzling attraction she feels toward her client. She’s supposed to be prepping him for an FBI interrogation, and acting on her desires would be unethical and illegal...
  • Forever Ventured by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Ventured by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Wyatt Davies is faced with a hard choice: give up being a veterinarian or give up the family horse racing farm he inherited. He has one chance to save the farm and that chance lies with horse trainer Camila Callahan. Camila was raised by the United Kingdom's greatest horse trainer, and he taught her everything he knew...
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    suspense  m-f  humor  contemporary  audiobook
  • Now or Never by Janet Evanovich

    Now or Never by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    She said yes to Morelli. She said yes to Ranger. Now Stephanie Plum has two fiancés and no idea what to do about it. But the way things are going, she might not live long enough to marry anyone.While Stephanie stalls for time, she buries herself in her work as a bounty hunter, tracking down an unusually varied assortment of fugitives from justice...
  • Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Nuclear Option by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The exciting and thrilling conclusion to Cash and Eva’s story, and the second book in the OPS series! The military defines a Nuclear Option as a drastic step or last resort, and I’m about to take it. Cash I am an expert marksman, engaging the enemy from afar. You’ll never see me coming because I’m that good. Even a sniper can be drawn out of hiding...
  • Heller's Girlfriend by J.D. Nixon

    Heller's Girlfriend by J.D. Nixon

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Tilly Chalmers’ life is complicated. Her boyfriend is demanding more attention while her boss, Heller, is always a distracting temptation...
  • Forever Concealed by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Concealed by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Can love find a way when truth is concealed? Gabe Ali Rahman is the standby heir to the crown and he’s okay with that. So what that he’s gotten the reputation of being a playboy prince? He’s had a lot of fun along the way. But now he wants more in life than casual flings...
  • Cherish Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Cherish Me Forever by Layla Hagen

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Reese Maxwell meets her happy-ever-after in Layla Hagen's latest. What starts as a pretend romance soon turns into so much more...Newly divorced Dominic Waldorf is the most coveted bachelor in Chicago. At least, that’s what he thinks. I’d describe him as more of a Neanderthal with a really nice backside.When I accidentally spill champagne on him at a charity event, he accuses me of hitting on him...
  • No Vow Broken by Julie Moffett

    No Vow Broken by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Is it a Dream Wedding or a Bad Dream?Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought getting married would be just a formality. But when the guests are the pope, the president of the United States, and the first lady, she’d soon find out that weddings, much like life, do not always go as planned...
  • Forever Hunted by Kathleen Brooks

    Forever Hunted by Kathleen Brooks

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The hunt is on... Carter Ashton had always been close to the entire Davies family. Until he decided he wanted to bring his relationship with Reagan Davies out of the shadows. As tempers flare, Carter must stand his ground or lose the love of his life. But when an old family friend asks for help, Carter unknowingly brings danger to the doorstep of the woman he loves...
  • No Escape by Julie Moffett

    No Escape by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Geek girl Lexi Carmichael thought meeting the in-laws would be easy as long as they met on neutral ground and she was fully prepared with a spreadsheet full of etiquette dos and don’ts. But unfortunately for Lexi, things don’t always turn out as she planned.Meeting the in-laws is a daunting task even for those who are outgoing and socially capable...
  • The Ego (maniac) by Penelope Bloom

    The Ego (maniac) by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Penelope Bloom brings a brand new hilariously uplifting romance where the chemistry explodes between two total opposites.Something is very wrong with my downstairs neighbor.For starters? She appears completely immune to my charms.It’s odd. Downright suspicious, even.But beneath those frowns and pantsuits, I know she feels the connection, too...
  • The Gritty Truth by Melissa Foster

    The Gritty Truth by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    A fun, sexy, and emotionally riveting new standalone romance by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Foster. THE GRITTY TRUTH is the perfect love story for those who enjoy fiercely loyal and insanely sexy alpha heroes, smart, sassy heroines, strong family bonds, bikers, babies, and more!Recovering drug addict Quincy Gritt has fought his demons...
  • Safe Haven by Emilia Finn

    Safe Haven by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Tyler Madden is a mystery, a sentinel passing through town and sticking to the shadows.He’s unforgettable to those who want to know him, but he prefers the darkness, and regularly seeks anonymity.It’s how he keeps his younger siblings safe and off the radar of those who may come looking.Kaia and Louie are not his by law...
  • Searching for Love by Melissa Foster

    Searching for Love by Melissa Foster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Discover the magic of New York Times bestseller Melissa Foster's writing and see why millions of readers have fallen in love with the fiercely loyal and sassily sexy characters in the Love in Bloom big-family romance collection. Love in Bloom novels are written to stand alone or may be enjoyed as part of the larger series, so dive right into this fun, sexy romance. In SEARCHING FOR LOVE..
  • Stolen Kisses by Ruth Cardello

    Stolen Kisses by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Dax Marshall isn’t the type of man a woman takes home to meet her parents. He’s a business shark who has never let anything as insignificant as caring stop him from taking over a company. Some call him heartless, but he doesn’t see the value of caring about anyone or anything until he meets Kenzi. Her happiness becomes his obsession...
  • Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Shoot the Breeze by Gina LaManna

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Welcome to St. Paul, Minnesota—home to strong coffee, deadly winters, and Detective Kate Rosetti—a rising star in the local homicide department. When a young woman turns up dead along the Mississippi River in her latest assignment, Detective Rosetti quickly realizes it’s the work of a notorious cross-country serial killer...
  • Tasty Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Tasty Pickle by J.J. Knight

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Surely nobody has ever met their great love while using duct tape to pull cactus needles out of their girl parts on a mountain trail.Except I just did.Let me tell you about Axel Pickle.He’s a bronzed god.Totally outdoorsy.Worth half a billion after selling his nature app.And he hikes naked...
  • Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 112 ratings
    Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back - and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman...
  • Whiskey, You're The Devil by Liliana Hart

    Whiskey, You're The Devil by Liliana Hart

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Things are looking up for Addison Holmes. She's about to take her P.I. exams, she's living in sin with the man of her dreams, and she hasn't had a phone call from her mother in three whole days. But she should have known things were too good to last...
  • After His Banana by Penelope Bloom

    After His Banana by Penelope Bloom

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    What comes after His Banana? Technically, that would be me. Before you assume I’m a potassium sucking harlot, Let me explain… I didn’t have time for relationships, especially not with someone like Miles Chamberson. But considering my circumstances, I didn’t really have a choice. Yes, he was the kind of offspring only generations of exceptionally attractive people could create...
  • Treasured by Thursday by Catherine Bybee

    Treasured by Thursday by Catherine Bybee

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    The seventh and final tale in the dazzling, heartwarming, pulse-racing Weekday Brides series. Gabriella Masini: She’s a woman haunted by her past, with the scars to prove it. She believes that fairy tales are for other people...
  • Blind Bake by Denise Grover Swank

    Blind Bake by Denise Grover Swank

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The first book in a new series by USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestselling author, Denise Grover Swank. A month ago, I quit my job and finally left my commitment-phobe boyfriend (seriously Steve, seven years is long enough to know if I’m the one). Then I moved back to my hometown of Cockamamie, Tennessee, to take care of my newly widowed Aunt Deidre...
  • After Indigo Irish Nights by Ava Miles

    After Indigo Irish Nights by Ava Miles

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Boston born and bred, Kathleen O’Connor knows all about toughness. Thanks to her pop, she can bend scrap metal. Thanks to her seven older brothers, she's not scared to fight for what she wants. And thanks to her exes, she's wise to the illusion of happily ever after. Toughness comes easy to Kathleen, and so does bending tough materials into art...
  • Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone is book 12 in the OPS series and should be read in order.I never should have grown out my hair. That’s where this whole thing started. I was too rigid. Too organized. And nobody failed to point that out to me.So, I grew my hair out to prove them wrong.Now I had a fake career as a model, all in the name of keeping a woman named Juliette safe...
  • Pure Chemistry by Emilia Finn

    Pure Chemistry by Emilia Finn

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    I’ve never wished for a knight in shining armor before, but today might be the day I let go of that pigheadedness and accept a little help.I’m a biochemist with a dream to cure cancer, but in my quest to save lives, I may be the reason thousands die...
  • Got Your Six by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Got Your Six by Giulia Lagomarsino

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Got Your Six is book 6 in the OPS Protector Romance series and should be read in order.Action, Adventure, and a good woman—that’s all I crave. A chance to prove my love for a woman by risking my life for her.Everyone else gets to do it, so why not me?Except, I never imagined she would vanish without a trace.I thought she had been taken by a gang or a serial killer...
  • Everette: Driverton 1 by Ruth Cardello

    Everette: Driverton 1 by Ruth Cardello

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Driverton’s sweetest man is on a mission to become a hero.After graduating from “Bradford’s School for Sobriety and Success,” AKA months of military style, intense physical and mental training, Everette Morin is saving lives. Joining forces with both Bradford Wilson and Cooper Landon, Everette is locating, retrieving, and returning missing children...
    Categorized as:
    super rich hero  m-f  contemporary  humor
  • Second by Penelope Sky

    Second by Penelope Sky

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 24 ratings
    She’s gone. But the fortune can’t be true because she means nothing to me. Nothing at all. But the doubt starts to creep in. My thoughts only focus on one thing. The other women no longer satisfy me. It starts to drive me crazy. When I finally confront her, the horror shatters me. She’s marrying someone else...
  • Tanner by Jeannine Colette, Lauren Runow

    Tanner by Jeannine Colette, Lauren Runow

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    We’re two strangers on a train, knowing whatever we decide in the next moment might dictate our fate for the rest of our lives.“A kiss was all I needed.”“Looks like you got what you wished for.”“Yes. About that…”My plan: find a finely dressed businessman, have a one-night stand, and forget about my failed relationship.Like a bad joke, my ex walks into the bar...
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